{"id":537462,"date":"2019-12-01T09:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T14:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=537462"},"modified":"2019-12-01T09:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T14:50:20","slug":"watford-sack-manager-quique-sanchez-flores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/12\/01\/watford-sack-manager-quique-sanchez-flores\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford Sack Manager Quique Sanchez Flores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/watford\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watford<\/a> have sacked their manager Quique Sanchez Flores just 12 games into his second tenure at Vicarage Road. He leaves the club on the back of a 2-1 defeat to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/southampton\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southampton<\/a>, cementing their place at the bottom of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<h2>Watford Sack Manager Quique Sanchez Flores<\/h2>\n<h3>Poor Results Continued for Watford Under Quique Sanchez Flores<\/h3>\n<p>Sanchez Flores took over from Javi Gracia on September 7. His predecessor was sacked after a winless start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>However, that form continued under Sanchez Flores. Watford failed to win any of their opening six Premier League games under the Spaniard; although they did seal a narrow 2-1 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/swansea-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swansea City<\/a> in the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p>That run of six Premier League games included a humiliating 8-0 defeat to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a>. As a result, Sanchez Flores tried to sure up the defence, and they subsequently only conceded two goals from the following four matches.<\/p>\n<p>The nail in the coffin for Quique Sanchez Flores proved to be a 2-1 defeat for Watford away to Southampton. The Hornets took the lead in the 24th minute through summer signing <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/bfdb33aa\/Ismaila-Sarr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ismaila Sarr<\/a>. However, they surrendered a two-goal lead in five minutes late into the second half.<\/p>\n<h3>Experience the Key for Watford?<\/h3>\n<p>Watford have just one win from 14 Premier League games so far this season. They are struggling, and need to start winning games to boost their survival hopes.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Watford need a manager with Premier League experience and one who has experience in relegation battles.<\/p>\n<p>However, they do not necessarily fit the current Watford mould of a manager. Quique Sanchez Flores&#8217; previous managerial experience came with the Hornets, while Javi Gracia had never managed in the English top-flight before. As a result, Watford are likely to continue this model of managerial appointment&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Watford travel to Leicester City in their next Premier League game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watford have sacked their manager Quique Sanchez Flores just 12 games into his second tenure at Vicarage Road. He leaves the club on the back of a 2-1 defeat to Southampton, cementing their place at the bottom of the Premier League. Watford Sack Manager Quique Sanchez Flores Poor Results Continued for Watford Under Quique Sanchez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":537471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2,3,25],"tags":[2495,40,4177,296,136],"class_list":["post-537462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-premier-league","category-watford","tag-javi-gracia","tag-premier-league","tag-quique-sanchez-flores","tag-watford","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}